Table 5.
Review of 12 reported cases of colonic MALT lymphoma positive for t(11;18)(q21;q21)
| Breakpoint | |||||||
| Reference | Age/ sex | Histological type | Stage | t(11;18)(q21;q21) | API2 | MLT | Method for detection of t(11;18)(q21;q21) |
| Motegi and colleagues26 | 45/M | Low with high | IIE | + | 2048 | 1150 | RT-PCR+G banding |
| 56/M | Low | IE | + | 2048 | 814 | RT-PCR+G banding | |
| Remstein and colleagues27 | ND | Low | ND | + | ND | ND | RT-PCR |
| ND | Low | ND | + | ND | ND | RT-PCR | |
| Dierlamm and colleagues30 | ND | Low | ND | − | FISH+G banding | ||
| Inagaki and colleagues31 | 60/M | Low | IIE | + | 2048 | 541 | RT-PCR |
| 62/F | Low | IE | − | RT-PCR | |||
| 66/M | Low | IIE | − | RT-PCR | |||
| Hosaka and colleagues35 | 56/F | Low | IE1 | + | G banding | ||
| Our case (no. 26) | 52/M | Low | IV | + | 2048 | 1123 | RT-PCR+G banding |
| Our case (no. 27) | 43/M | Low | IE2 | + | 2048 | 1150 | RT-PCR+G banding |
| Our case (no. 28) | 54/M | Low | IE1 | − | RT-PCR | ||
Histological type: Low, low grade MALT lymphoma; Low with high, low grade MALT lymphoma with a focal high grade component.
FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridisation; MALT, mucosa associated lymphoid tissue; ND, not described; RT-PCR, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.